1230292 - Improve failure message when installing via direct links to an addons XPI fails

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Add-on Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

In bug 1201534 it was decided that addons cannot be installed via direct links but the error message is, "Fennec prevented an add-on from installing on your device."

This should be improved to give the workaround of pushing an HTML page containing a link to the page, or even opening a web page that explains how to do it.

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

We should do this. I recently tried installing an addon by typing in the URL manually and it kept failing for no obvious reason. I wasn't the only one running into this problem either.

Comment 2

[nemo]

Yep, spent a long time in config trying to figure out how to get this to work.  Was quite confused 'cause that's how I install APKs, and I'd never had an issue with them.

Would the XPI install have worked if I had downloaded it locally in another browser, then chosen to open in Firefox?

Comment 3

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